PAX 2009: Four Biggest Surprises

Surprise 3: Global Agenda

Hi-Rez Studios unveiled three maps from Global Agenda, These are an escort map called Ice-Flow, a three-point ticket map called Seaside set on a massive drilling platform, and an Attack/Defend map set within the mountains of East Asia called Climate Control.All of these maps are part of Global Agenda's Closed Beta Test 1.

Global Agenda is a fast-paced action MMO using Unreal Engine 3, is set in a near future world of advanced technology and player-driven conflict. It features fast-paced ranged and close combat, RPG-style character progression, solo or cooperative team missions, and epic, competitive campaigns between player-created agencies.

Executive Producer Todd Harris of Global Agenda was very happy to see the PAX crowd love their game.

"First-time players are hopping on a station, playing team-based missions, and then returning with additional friends to play more", says Todd. "Our Dev Team here at PAX is thrilled to see players enjoying MMO game-play for its own sake rather than simply to level-up a character. Our booth is a grind-free zone".

That's why I called this game is a surprise in PAX 2009.

The controls seems extremely intuitive, and although combat can certainly be slightly chaotic when first jumping into, it didn't take all that long to get a feel for the role of your class in a given scenario or even for some of the game’s more tactical elements to become much more apparent. And this means easily accessible to most FPS fans.

The game combine FPS skills with RPG-style. You can create your own character with extensively customize and keep on developing your agent with their skills, high-tech gears against their enemies.

Game features:

• Develop your agent - Create, extensively customize, and improve your agent character over the course of your career, complimenting your FPS skills with RPG-style progression and high-tech gear.
  
• Advance your agency - Join a player-created agency, compete in technology races for advanced equipment, and capture critical locations to increase your influence in the world.
  
• Compete in fast-paced PvP combat - Work with your allies to gather reconnaissance data, then raid or capture enemy-controlled facilities during objective-based missions. Equip yourself from a powerful array of weapons, armor, and strategic devices like triggered explosives, deployable turrets, stealth suits, holographic decoys, and remote control robots.
  
• Experience a dynamic, player-driven world - Agency leaders navigate through a global conflict of other player-run groups, striving to reach their goals first. Territory, resources, technology, and influence are all valuable commodities, with agencies engaging in politics, intrigue, and outright deception to control them.

Ice-Flow is an Escort map set outside a Siberian facility with the lights of the Aurora Borealis visible against the evening sky.

Seaside is a 3-point Ticket map set upon a massive drilling platform suspended above a storming Northern Atlantic ocean.

Climate Control is an Attack/Defend map set within the mountains of East Asia and populated with trees that sway in the blowing wind.

Closed Beta Date: July 24.

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